Celluloid Power: Social Film Criticism from the Birth of a Nation to Judgment at Nuremberg

Author:   David Platt
Publisher:   Scarecrow Press
ISBN:  

9780810824423


Pages:   652
Publication Date:   01 December 1992
Format:   Hardback
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Celluloid Power: Social Film Criticism from the Birth of a Nation to Judgment at Nuremberg


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Reprints the insightful contributions of more than fifty screenwriters, directors, producers, historians, and critics on diverse films from the earliest years of the film industry through the 1970s...a celebration of artistic and intellectual aspiration. - LIBRARY JOURNAL

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Author:   David Platt
Publisher:   Scarecrow Press
Imprint:   Scarecrow Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.903kg
ISBN:  

9780810824423


ISBN 10:   0810824426
Pages:   652
Publication Date:   01 December 1992
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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In addition to pieces by neglected critics he has also included firsthand accounts by filmmakers and distributors....Equally important is his rescue from obscurity of essays with a social, if not specifically political angle....Recommended... * CHOICE * A scholarly and important collection... * Film Review Annual * As a celebration of artistic and intellectual aspiration in the face of perennial injustice, this book deserves a place in all serious film book collections. * Library Journal * In addition to pieces by neglected critics he has also included firsthand accounts by filmmakers and distributors...Equally important is his rescue from obscurity of essays with a social, if not specifically political angle...Recommended... CHOICE A scholarly and important collection... Film Review Annual As a celebration of artistic and intellectual aspiration in the face of perennial injustice, this book deserves a place in all serious film book collections. Library Journal


In addition to pieces by neglected critics he has also included firsthand accounts by filmmakers and distributors...Equally important is his rescue from obscurity of essays with a social, if not specifically political angle...Recommended... Choice A scholarly and important collection... Film Review Annual As a celebration of artistic and intellectual aspiration in the face of perennial injustice, this book deserves a place in all serious film book collections. Library Journal


In addition to pieces by neglected critics he has also included firsthand accounts by filmmakers and distributors...Equally important is his rescue from obscurity of essays with a social, if not specifically political angle...Recommended... CHOICE A scholarly and important collection... Film Review Annual As a celebration of artistic and intellectual aspiration in the face of perennial injustice, this book deserves a place in all serious film book collections. Library Journal


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David Platt, a self-educated film journalist who was born in the Ukraine and grew up in Pennsylvania, founded the journal Experimantal Cinema in 1930 and wrote hundreds of film reviews for the Daily Worker and Jewish Currents between 1933 and 1990. As National Secretary of the Film and Photo League he edited its journal, Film Front, reprinted by Scarecrow Press in 1986 (Anthony Slide, ed.).

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